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Today, on this 9th Sunday after Trinity, we hear a very familiar story from the Old Testament or the First Testament. A family story from the Hebrew Scriptures directly out of the book of Genesis. And the book of Genesis is above all a family story. We know from our own experience about all the good and bad things that happens between human beings, especially among friends and family. Joseph’s brother are jealous of Joseph, call him a dreamer and want to get rid of him. Negative emotions like jealousy, hate and fear happen a lot in our relationships with others, which causes bad things to happen. It happens to you and me as well. Most likely they do not throw us in a pit literally or sell us for a few bucks. But symbolically the might. It might be your family, friend, collegues or more worse….your brothers and sisters in Christ that turn their backs on you. The biggest underlying cause for this behaviour is fear. Fear paralyzes and let us do awful thing. Karl Barth wrote that fear is “is the anticipation of a supposedly certain defeat.” This is what rules the emotions of Joseph’s brothers., who fear and hate their brother’s favored status.
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